All Quiet on the Western Front

What Roles does chance and luck play in the war?

Please two quotes with the page numbers and what the quote is explaining. Thank you! This is in chapter six pages 99-108! All Quiet on the Western Front

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Paul believes that all soldiers believe in "Chance" in the trenches; he cites a lucky incident in which he barely escaped being killed twice in a row.Really ending up alive in the trenches is based on chance and luck more than anything else.

"It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bombproof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hours' bombardment unscathed. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck."